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“Inside the MFAH” provides perspectives, conversations, and opinions from insiders at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Radical Ink: “Beautifully Packed Dynamite” of El Techo de la Ballena January 9, 2019
El Techo de la Ballena, an avant-garde group of Venezuelan artists active during the 1960s, produced publications that promoted an anarchic, violent, and aggressive stance toward politics and culture. A few of these printed materials are on view in the exhibition Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela, 1955–1975.
Total Creative Freedom: “Contesting Modernity” Explores Informalism November 9, 2018
“Informalism proposes the need for total creative freedom . . . crafting a new vision of the cosmos.” —poet and artist Juan Calzadilla, 1960